(satire) *… the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was reportedly ordered Thursday to incinerate hundreds of screaming, boil-riddled test subjects before widely releasing the vaccine.*

Portland, Oregon, has banned use of face recognition by businesses.

I think this is the first such law in the US, and perhaps in the world.

Since the article quotes people as relating this to racial discrimination, I wish to comment on that.

Racial discrimination is wrong, and tracking people is wrong, but it is a mistake to relate the two issues too much. If you think that tracking people is wrong specifically because it enables discrimination, that means you are missing the threat of tracking in itself: that it is the base for repression.

To avert repression, we need to ban tracking regardless of whether it is used for discrimination.

Maduro announced Venezuela's capture of a US marine with arms and money, claimed to be spying on two oil refineries.

*Most wildfire coverage on American TV news (85%) fails to mention link to climate crisis.*

But that's not as bad as it was in August.

Republican judges in the 11th circuit federal appeals court approved Florida Republicans' scheme to block around 700,000 ex-cons from voting.

The Supreme Court might reverse this, but if it does not, I urge those people to to move to a state where their votes can do some good.